Cold Enough for Ye?”
The Chilling Effect of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16673245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Russell M Hillier (0000-0001-5762-2685, Providence College, Providence, RI, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-307 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-769X • E-ISSN: 1940-3364 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0895769x.2020.1821165 |
| OpenAlex | W3091468246 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Cormac McCarthy's third novel, Child of God (1973), tells the unpalatable story of the descent of Lester Ballard into voyeurism, necrophilia, and murder; yet, as scholars have observed, “the novel
Art · Descent (aeronautics · Geography · Literature · Meteorology · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Voyeurism · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Modern American Literature Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |